A loss at every level

Brandon Laird is your Double-A Eastern League Player of the Month for May thanks to his .339-.374-.591 batting line with nine doubles, six homers, and a cycle. Hard to believe that Laird is just the second player from the Trenton franchise to win the Player of the Month away since they started handing it out in 1997. The other guy was some scrappy little infielder named David Eckstein, who won it when Trenton was Boston’s Double-A affiliate in 1999.

High-A Tampa had both games of it’s doubleheader rained out. They’re going to make up the first game at some point in the future, but the second game was canceled all together. The Yanks were actually leading 6-5 in the 3rd inning when it started raining, but all those stats get washed away. Here’s the box score if you want to see who did what in that time.

The walks were because the league is enforcing a 3-inch by 3-inch strike zone whenever Melvin pitches. It used to be 6-inch by 6-inch (Source: http://bit.ly/ahXW7i), but he was just too good, so they changed it again.

poster

I think he’s smart enough to know that if he doesn’t walk people with a strike zone that small, people will think he’s cheating. Just another brilliant idea from Melvin.

Angelo

What an awful day for the Yankees organization.

At least Heathcott and Murphy played well. I hope they can keep it up

Ted Nelson

I would say two of your most promising young prospects, your top two picks from the last draft, a couple of 19 year olds in full season ball, having good days isn’t an awful day for the organization… Jesus had a decent day: .500 OBP and 33% caught stealing compared to 22% for the season… Jose Ramirez having a better day would have made it a pretty good day IMO…

Ted Nelson

Ramirez and/or Romine having a better day, I guess. And for Ramirez it wasn’t like he got beat up, he killed himself with control.

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